超星 - Comprehending and Reflecting

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What is the main idea of paragraph 4 in the reading passage?

A. People tend to be less aware of the cultural literacy when communicating with people from another culture.
B. Language and culture are related to and shape each other.
Cultural literacy is a must to command a foreign language.
D. Knowing its grammaticalrules is necessary to command a foreign language.

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What does “register”(Line 2, paragraph 5) refer to?

A. book in
B. record
C. show
D. express

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According to the author, why is it said that words in themselves don’t carry the meaning?

A. Because language bears the characteristic ofarbitrariness (任意性).
Because it is well known that the forms oflinguisticsigns bear no natural relationship to their meanings.
C. Because the author intends to emphasize the fact that word meaning comes not only from its literalusagebut also from the cultural context.
D. Because words are usually attributed to the specific meaning and interpreted differently from person to person.

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Which of the following statements is NOT TRUEaccording to the reading passage?

A. Language barrieris adirect resultfromMr. Hartmann’s businessfailurein America.
B. As culture and language are inseparable, cultural literacy should be highly valued in communicating across cultures.
C. In the context of American English,“How are you?”should be culturallyinterpretedas a greeting rather than a question.
D. Germans and Americans have a culturally different way toaddresspeople.

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What is the main idea of the essay?

A. How to develop intercultural awareness.
B. Culture and communication are closely interwined.
C. How to become a good intercultural communicator.
D. How to understand culture better when you study a foreign language.

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What is the main point stated in the second part(Paras.4-6）of the essay?

A. To better understand cultural differences, one must be aware that the meaning of a word is given by the other person.
B. To be a successful intercultural communicator, one must make efforts to understand cultural differences.
C. To learn a second language, one must learn its culture at the same time.
D. Communicating across cultures is made difficult because of one's ethnocentrism.

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Without a culture we cannot see, but with a culture, it is._________

A. easier for us to act in other cultures
B. easier for us to see our own culture
C. more difficult for us to act in other cultures
D. more difficult for us to see our own culture

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The word "passport"(Para.3, Line 3) means _________.

A. ID card indicating who we are
B. glasses we wear to see things
C. home culture in which we grow up
D. host culture in which we view differences

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What is special about adults learning a second language?

A. They must spare extra efforts to learn its culture consciously.
B. They must learn its grammatical structure and semantics.
C. They learn it in order to communicate with native speakers.
D. They recognize that variety is the spice of life.

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According to the author, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Words communicate meaning that is given by a particular culture.
B. Everyone is born into a culture that teaches us shared understandings and expectations.
C. Ethnocentrism involves the ways in which we use our own culture as the standard to judge other cultures.
D. One culture's way of doing things that is "right" for its people is always "right" for everyone.

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